Lance Gaitan worked as an auditor for an insurance administrator for a number of years before he attained his securities license and then went to work as a broker for a small firm. After migrating to Florida in early 2000, Gaitan founded GSV Futures, a futures trading firm specializing in retail commodity trading strategies. Gaitan sold that business in 2006 and joined Harry Dent, Jr. and Rodney Johnson at Dent Research shortly thereafter.